Welcome to the Junction 2010 E-Archive!
Conference sessions are listed below with a link to an MP3 file if an audio file is available.
Plenary sessions are also listed with either an MP3 file download option or a link to YouTube for video footage (if available).
To view a copy of the Junction 2010 Final Report as a PDF click here.
FRIDAY 27 AUGUST: Session One: 9-10.15am
1A: The Role of Art in Bushfire Recovery
Moderator: Susan Strano
Panelists: Marilyn Gourley, Verity Higgins, Dr. Rosa McManamey, Hannah Rubenach and Maree Tonkin
A documentary film, publications and a range of projects will show examples of the crucial role of art and artists in bushfire recovery for communities in Victoria and Tasmania. The session will include a discussion about the role of art in resilience, community building, healing and reclaiming identity.
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1B: ::9x7x7::
Moderator: Lenine Bourke
Panelists: Kay Balnaves, Leigh Boswell, Simon Clarke, Kate Fielding, Ben Fox, Suzanne Hauser, Gwen Knox, Ben Laden, Vashti Lane, Lisa Nelson, Rebecca Russell, Malcolm Sanders, Julie Waddington and Sandi Woo
Using a fast, visually interesting format that focuses on questions rather than outcomes. YPAA members who engage regional and remote children, young people and emerging artists in arts and cultural development will discuss their practice. YPAA has engaged presenters with knowledge, expertise and enthusiasm for individual and sometimes collaborative practice to answer the question: What ideas inform my work?
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1C: The Wanti Sugarba Project
Moderators: Christine Jeffries-Stokes and Annette Stokes
Panelists: Geoffrey Stokes, Lachlan Stokes and Rebecca Stokes
Associate Professor Jeffries-Stokes with Rebecca and Lachlan Stokes (aged 13 and 10) will talk about the Wongutha Birni Aboriginal Cultural Centre in Kalgoorlie and their partnerships with the RCSWA. Christine is a paediatrician who uses a unique combination of arts and health as a vehicle for community development in the Goldfields and was awarded the Outstanding Rural Doctor of the Year, 2009.
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1D: Population Drift: You Win Some You Lose Some
Presenter(s): Helen Bock and Joyce Louey
The population drift of teenagers to the ‘big smoke'; the influx of ‘city slicker baby boomers' to their ‘tree/sea change' fantasy; bushfires; water shortages; the ebb and flow of business and industry. An exploration of population changes and movement. How do you build a community in an environment of change? And where do the arts fit in?
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1E: Did I Tell You the One About...?
Presenter: Moya Sayer-Jones
Hear about The Story Exchange, an innovative Adult Literacy project developed as part of Junction 2010 and showcased this year at the Only Human Story Lounge. The Lounge is open throughout the conference for meeting, sharing and exploring Only Human story approaches across media.
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Plenary Two: Threads
10.45am-12.15pm, Princess Theatre
David O'Byrne MP, Tasmanian Minister for the Arts
Moments of hope and inspiration - a vision for the arts
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Click here to view this keynote address on YouTube.
Jane Bennett
Culture is Evolution Not Archaeology
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Francois Matarasso
The Parliament of Dreams: Why Everything Depends on Culture
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Plenary Three: Is Philanthropy the Solution for Regional Artists?
1.30-2.30pm, Princess Theatre
Moderator: Caroline Baum
Panelists: Rev. Dr. Arthur Bridge AM M Litt D Mus, Glen Donnelly and Janet Hirst
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FRIDAY 27 AUGUST: Session Two: 2.50-3.20pm
2A: kaiela/tongala mana banalu(t) (Fibre Weaving Project) - A Conversation
Moderator: Angie Russi
Panelists: Patricia Harrison and Robyn Thompson
Following in the creative footsteps of their ancestral and cultural traditions by reconnecting with traditional women's crafts of their country, women from the Goulburn/Murray River will present their experiences of building this reconnection.
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2B: WotOpera! Wot?
Moderator: Frances Gordon
Panelists: Murray Dahm, Graeme Wood, Warwick Schultz (Exeter High), Michael Boon (Queechy High) and Grace Denney (Scotch Oakburn College)
This session will explore the Opera Australia education program, WotOpera. A 30 minute session in which young people, arts practitioners, and arts philanthropist Graeme Wood, explain the WotOpera process, how it evolved, its aims and outcomes.
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2C: The Canberra Diaspora
Presenters: Robyn Archer AO and Tamsin Sharp
In 2013 we celebrate the Centenary of Canberra. The Canberra Diaspora is a global project where the vast Canberra diaspora is explored, shared and presented to the world using a unique digital platform created by Singing Bowl Media. Be the first to record your Canberra Diaspora story at Junction 2010!
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2E: The ABC's Gateway to the Arts
Presenter(s): Debbie Cuthbertson and Tarni James
The ABC's Gateway is an online portal featuring the best curated arts content from across ABC TV, Radio and Online, as well as material contributed by artists & arts organisations from around Australia. There are 22 genres of arts practice on display on the Gateway. Artists can reach a large audience by uploading their work to the Gateway via Artpost, an initiative of the ABC and Regional Arts Australia.
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FRIDAY 27 AUGUST: Session Three: 3.40-4.30pm
3A: Not Just Another Music Festival
Moderator: Ian Pidd
Panelists: Deborah Conway, Nigel Lavender and Brian Ritchie
A session that contrasts two regional music festivals going out of their way to expand their audience beyond those who identify themselves as "music lovers." These festivals have music at their heart but have been expanded to encompass theatre, large scale spectacle, art installation, community participation, with the occasional hip hop superstar thrown in. Join us for two case studies in turbo-charged programming.
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3B: RAA Speaks Out
Moderator: Anne Dunn
Panelists: Julie Boyd, Ruth Smiles, Lindy Allen, Lee Cole, Arthur Frame AM, Dennis Goldner, Paul Jenkins, Meg Larkin, John McCourt, John Oster, Lew Owens and Hania Radvan
Regional Arts Australia Directors will talk about what people in regional communities believe is important for their future. The President of RAA, Julie Boyd, will lead a discussion about how the arts can work creatively with other organisations towards building a better life for regional Australians.
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3C: What's Wrong with Evaluation
Presenter: Francois Matarasso
Evaluation has become common in the arts - especially at the community level. It has brought new ideas and understanding of their value, but misplaced expectations of arts professionals. The adoption of science-based concepts and business models has proved burdensome and incoherent. As a result, arts evaluation often produces unreliable data from which it is hard to learn. The experience can be frustrating for professionals and intrusive for the people they work with. Its contribution to policy or wider knowledge remains weak. The session will look at these problems and their causes before suggesting approaches.
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3D: Arts and Health Junction
Moderator: Senator Christine Milne
Panelists: Sally Francis, Rosalie Hastwell, Margret Meagher, Christine Putland, Leigh Tesch and Mike White
Be inspired by current arts and health practice - where engagement with arts enriches the wellbeing of communities and healthcare settings. Reflect on challenges, debates and controversy. This facilitated networking session features speakers, creative interactive discussion, and opportunities to meet others working in similar fields.
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3E: Green Fields, Snake Catchers and the Sound of Suburb Creep
Presenters: Jude Anderson, Peter Anderson, Martin Paten and Rob Robson
Where does metropolitan stop and regional begin, is the distinction important, and how might this affect arts creation and professional development for regional artists into the future? A conversation over snakes around a game that bites into questions on arts practice in a changing landscape.
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SATURDAY 28 AUGUST: Session Four: 9-9.40am
4A: Independent Producers: Working Without a Safety Net
Moderator: Ian Pidd
Panelists: Ross Byers, Sarah Howell, Joe Pickett and Suze van der Beek
A panel of independent producers and freelance artists celebrate the joys and pinpoint the frustrations of working without a safety net. Moderated by Ian Pidd the session will certainly be biased toward the positive, highlighting the efficiency and nimbleness that comes without having a board or bureaucracy to answer to, but will also seek to identify ways in which the independent sector can be better supported.
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4B: Target Practice: How to Make Your Grant Application Hit the Mark
Presenters: Debra Morgan and Claire Rimmer
Program Managers from The Myer Foundation and The Ian Potter Foundation will provide an overview of the philanthropic sector and how best to apply for grants. The session will include inside information on what makes a ‘good' funding application; what philanthropic organisations will and won't fund; and philanthropic funding issues particular to the arts.
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4C: Big hART's Drive: Young Men and the Art of Risktaking
Moderator: Telen Rodwell
Panelists: Paul Corfiatis, Nathan Gelston, Ethan Haywood, Billy Mercer, Ray Narris, Kade Redmond, Jim Stedman, Michael Swan and Zac Veart
Drive is a film-based project based on Tasmania's North West Coast, designed to challenge young men to explore the reasons behind an epidemic of young male road fatality. Participants will talk about making the Drive documentary and website, and how it became an examination of young male cultural identity.
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4D: Top Five Disruptive Technologies
Presenter: Bong Ramilo
The presentation will propose, demonstrate, discuss, and adopt a list of the top five disruptive technologies for Regional Arts in Australia. Disruptive technologies cause major change in the accepted way of doing things. Topics include: Social Networking; Cloud Computing; Ubiquitous Computing; Locative Media; Free and Open Source Software.
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4E: Greasing the Glue and Gluing the Grease: Introducing The Social Impresario
Presenter: Natalie de Vito
The Social Impresario: A conflation of the social worker and the opera impresario: ‘an individual who, under the auspices of art, shamelessly develops and promotes nascent social configurations'. Mammalian Diving Reflex is a Toronto-based research-art atelier dedicated to investigating the social sphere, producing one-off events, theatre-based performance, theoretical texts and community happenings. They create works in public, working with adults and children alike, and invite audience members to become collaborators and participants in their live performance events.
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SATURDAY 28 AUGUST: Session Five: 10-10.40am
5A: Out of Range by Choice
Moderator: Dr. Pete Hay
Panelists: Sally Marsden, Eko Prawoto and Emma Washer
Dr Pete Hay, a published poet and academic whose research covers environmental thought, environmental politics, and the nature of place and place attachment, will facilitate a panel of artists who choose to live on islands. They will discuss how their chosen environment affects their practice and provides and builds a sense of place. In addition Pete will facilitate a conversation about the islands we create ourselves.
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5C: Tutti and the Digitech
Presenters: Trisha Ferguson, Philip Griffin and James Kurtze
Tutti participants and artists have been working since 2007 producing animations, documentaries and music-videos. These involve all sectors of the Tutti Arts program, a training program for young people with a learning disability, including visual and performing artists, across all aspects of the production. Tutti artists will show an exciting range of work and discuss the ways that work was created.
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5D: A Stitch in Time... Bringing Quality Arts Projects and Artists into Residential Aged Care Facilities
Presenters: Catherine Dinkelmann; Artist: Jennifer Bartholomew
An illustrated evidence-based discussion about the important role of artists-in-residence implementing quality long-term arts projects in Residential Aged Care facilities. Illustrated by two case studies, this presentation will showcase the importance of a multi-modal arts approach to help prompt residents' memory and foster a greater sense of community amongst them.
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5E: The Arts in Community Health - It's a Flourishing Concept
Presenters: Margret Meagher and Mike White
What enables people and their communities to flourish? Mike White is a UK authority on the role of the arts in health promotion and community health, contending there is a direct correlation between the social determinants of health and the cultural imperative to be creative. In particular, he places emphasis on the development of children's emotional and mental health through arts in education and is an expert in community cultural development and regional regeneration through the arts. Mike will co-present with Margret Meagher.
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Plenary Four: Resilience
11am-12pm, Princess Theatre
Dr. Ernesto Sirolli
Passion, Entrepreneurship and the Rebirth of Local Economies
Click here to download the audio file (10.4 MB)
Click below to view this keynote address in four parts on YouTube:
Part One
Part Two
Part Three
Part Four
Plenary Five: Resilience
XX Marks the Spot: Perspectives from Young Leaders
1.15-2.15pm, Princess Theatre
Chair: Lenine Bourke
Panelists: Frances Bunji Elcoate, Angela Frost and Bronwyn Purvis
Click below to download the audio files:
Frances Bunji Elcoate (2.3 MB)
Angela Frost (1.5 MB)
Bronwyn Purvis (1.8 MB)
Click below to view to the presentations on YouTube:
Frances Bunji Elcoate
Angela Frost
Bronwyn Purvis
SATURDAY 28 AUGUST: Session Six: 2.30-3.10pm
6A: Large and Small Scale Projections, Use of the Web, Low and High Tech Projects in Regional Centres
Presenters: Cindi Drennan, Annemarie Kohn, Steve Mayhew and Luku Trembath
A panel of four artists will present examples of arts projects involving digital media and technology to demonstrate how technology can enhance, detract, confound and enlighten an audience's understanding of project methods, models and delivery.
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6B: Spaces of Possibility
Moderator: Lisa Andersen
Panelists: Bronwyn Edinger, Dr. Helen Lancaster and Marcus Westbury
Increasingly artists and festivals are creating work that is either site specific or designed to be experienced outside non traditional art spaces. The management of traditional spaces is also changing. What does this mean? And where are the opportunities?
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6C: "Bloody Hippies" - Waves of Change in Regional Community Arts Organisations
Presenters: Valeska Wood, Andy Ducker, Liz Jack and Jo Smith
Based upon an arts heritage documentary currently being developed, "Bloody Hippies" provides a backdrop for a broader, national discussion regarding the capacity of regional arts organisations to ensure that the arts are a fundamental platform of regional community development, alongside the environment and economy.
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6D: A Practical Guide to Documenting the Evidence: Researching the Role of the Arts in Rural Australia
Presenters: Julia Anwar McHenry
This workshop will introduce key concepts and approaches to research on the role of the arts in rural communities. By demystifying the research process in an interactive and participation-based approach, artists, arts workers and volunteers can document outcomes of their work to build support for future projects.
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6E: Artists as Entrepreneurs
Presenter: Dr Ernesto Sirolli
Entrepreneurship has two primary components: passion and skill. Passion is the fire in the belly - but it is not enough. Without the necessary knowledge and ability to paint, write or run a successful business, passion is only wishful thinking and the mother of all frustrations. Skill is what makes the dream real and transforms passion into good work. Equal amounts of skill and passion are required and no one is equally passionate about these three areas.
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SATURDAY 28 AUGUST: Session Seven: 3.20-4pm
7A: Don't File It: Use It - How Research Can Help Me
Moderator: Michael Huxley
Panelists: Audrey Hutchison, Lisa Andersen and Bridget Jones
This discussion cover the use of research as a practical tool for advocacy and the role of research in shaping and guiding cultural policy at a local level. It will also look at some practical hints to help you use the available research to better argue your case rather than just filing it.
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7B: Enterprising Arts for Arts Workers
Presenter: Dr Ernesto Sirolli
Working with entrepreneurs over the past 25 years, and yes, artists are entrepreneurs, Ernesto Sirolli has identified the lack of individual readiness to access specialised services and that very few people come forward with their ideas to use the resources that Australia has to offer. Our experience is that passion, not knowledge, is what moves them to take action, seek resources and access assistance.
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7C: Marketing and You: Strategies for the Visual Artist
Presenter: Dr Kim Lehman
This workshop provides visual artists with practical tools and strategies that they can use to market themselves and their practice. It is based on a current research project that investigates the usefulness of the concept of marketing for the visual artist, but is linked to real world, practitioner perspectives.
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7D: Regional Centre of Culture Program
Presenter: Steve Mayhew
A discussion of how the program, managed by Country Arts SA, aims to encourage the development of improved cultural infrastructure for regional centres and to provide increased access to the arts for people living in regional communities. Highlighted communities are Port Augusta and Murray Bridge.
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7E: Art and Alzheimer's Programs for Regional Australia
Presenter: Adriane Boag
Opportunities for intellectual stimulation for people living with dementia are rare. This session will provide insight into how tours of works of art in galleries and museums with trained professionals can increase the wellbeing for people living with dementia.
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SATURDAY 28 AUGUST: Session Eight: 4.10-4.40pm
8A: Creating Designing Regions
Presenter: Susan Reid
This session considers the status of design in the regions. How might design contribute to sustainable creative practices and regions? Can design influence perceptions of regional creative practices and stimulate the regions' share of arts funding, sponsorship and market awareness?
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8B: Enterprising the Regional Arts
Presenter: Kylie Eastley
An overview of Branching Out, the two year Westpac Foundation funded social enterprise project which explores the possibilities for regional arts organisations and groups to build resources and attract revenue.
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8C: Little Aesthetics and the Droogs
Presenters: Dr Ellie Ray and Geoff Dobson
The future of the Devonport Regional Gallery is reliant on many factors not least attracting a young audience. Ellie Ray and Geoff Dobson will discuss two recent initiatives, Little Aesthetics and the Droogs and how they have impacted on young visitors to the gallery.
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SUNDAY 29 AUGUST: Session Nine: 9-10am
9A: ARTABILITY: How to Make Your Arts Accessible
Presenters: Lisa Wallace; Lex Randolph and Kim Schneiders
A panel discussion hosted by Propel Youth Arts featuring Disability in the Arts, Disadvantage in the Arts (DADAA) and Young People and the Arts Australia (YPAA) discussing the barriers facing young people with a disability when engaging in the arts and strategies in making arts more accessible.
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9B: Reviving and Renewing Regional Centres
Presenter: Marcus Westbury
A look at the successful ‘Renew Newcastle' scheme which has taken empty spaces in Newcastle's dying city centre and turned it into a vibrant cultural and creative precinct. In a year and a half more than 40 new galleries, studios, offices, enterprises and crafts spaces have been opened and parts of the city that were dead have come back to life. It's cheap, it's effective and it works.
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9C: JUMP: Mentorships That Work in a Regional Context
Presenters: Julie Woodward, Brooke Newall and Alysha Herrmann
Overview: The Australia Council has launched the largest emerging artist mentoring program in Australia's history. Youth Arts Queensland is delivering the JUMP program nationally in partnership with arts organisations around Australia and will make a presentation on its inaugural year. This is also an opportunity to get a sneak peak at some of the 2010 cohort and their projects to date.
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9D: Quietest Voices in the Loudest Room: Community voices and contemporary media: the challenge of maintaining credibility and authenticity
Presenters: Robin Laurie, Maz McGann and Tamsin Sharp
We live in loud times! With the likes of mobile technology, digital TV and the Internet, sounds and images are streaming at us at 1500 kilobytes per second, 24-7. What does this mean for artists and cultural development professionals? Discussion and exploration of examples from Generations Wangaratta aimed to beam through the racket and ensure that people's stories, cultures, ideas and experiences are being heard.
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9E: Life Imitating Art: How creative arts approaches can engage people in the development of their community's future
Presenters: Leanne Hurst and Wendy Newton
An interactive workshop highlighting three innovative community arts projects that demonstrate how art can be an effective way of giving the whole community a voice into government decision making.
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Plenary Six: Momentum: 10.30am-12.30pm, Princess Theatre
Digital Bridges: Community, Arts and Technology
Moderator: Cecelia Cmielewski
Panelists: Sarah Last, Carli Leimbach, Marco Marcon and Bong Ramilo
Click below to download the panelist audio files:
Carli Leimbach (1.2 MB)
Marco Marcon (1.7 MB)
Bong Ramilo (1.6 MB)
Click below to view the panelist presentations on YouTube:
Carli Leimbach
Marco Marcon
Bong Ramilo
Mark Pesce: Only Connect
Click here to download the audio file (5.7 MB)
Click below to view this keynote address in two parts on YouTube:
